Cart-spring



(No Model.)

a. WALT ER.

G'ART SPRING.

Hui-70,164} Paten'td Jan.2, 1883.

INVENTOR BY ATTORNEYS.

' U IT D STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GU'STAVE WALTER, 0F SANDWICH, ILLINOIS.

CART-SPRING.

SPECIFICATION forming partof Letters Patent No. 270,164, dated January 2, 1883.

Application filed May flfi, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GUSTAVE WALTER, of Sandwich, in the countyof De Kalb and State of Illinois, have invented'a new and Improved Cart-Spring, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to an improvement in vehicle-springs; and it consists of springs having their forward ends extending downward and connected, to a transverse spring secured to a cross-bar of the shafts, substantially as hereinafter more fully set forth.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, :5'

in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a road cart or wagon provided with my improved spring. Fig. 2 is a side view of the spring, showing its connection to form the foot-board support.

A are the springs, attached at one end to the axle a, and supporting the seat B. Each spring is composed of two leaves, b b, bent in 0 form, and connected together attheir attachment to the axle and to the seat, but not in contact between those two points, so that they form a spring-brace for the support of the seat much stronger than a single spring and of great elasticity. springs are behind the seat, and they are 921- tended down at the front of the seat, as shown at c 0, their forward ends extending beneath the cross-bar d of the shafts, where the ends are connected to a crossspring, e, that is at- 3 5 tached to the cross-bar 01. Upon the end a of the springs A the foot-board f is fixed. By this construction and arraugenientI furnish a combined seat and foot-board spring of durable character, easy riding, and of ornamental o appearance.

Havingthus described my invention, Iclaiin as new and desire to secure by Letters Paten t- The seat-springs A, having their ends extending downward and connected to the spring 45 e on the cross-bar d of the shafts, substantially as shown and described.

GUSTAVE WALTER.

Witnesses S. PARIQSEDGWICK,

WEs'rEL W. SEDG-WIOK.

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